Carpeaux
Americannoun
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For the rest of that day, I pondered the fate of the nameless model, and how she became a subject for Carpeaux.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2022
In the case of the Carpeaux bust, it may have been Louise Kuling, a Black woman from Norfolk, who was living in Paris at the time.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2022
Does our looking simply extend the exploitation that Carpeaux both dramatizes and indulges?
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2022
The bust, which Carpeaux replicated in various sizes and media — the Met also owns a terra-cotta version, which is in the show — was conceived as a luxury-item collectible from the start.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
On the other hand, if Houdon's felicitous harmony of style and individual force are forgotten, there is hardly any recognized succession to the imaginative freedom, the verve, the triumphant personal fertility of Rude and Carpeaux.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
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